"Royal S. Copeland, the powerful health commissioner of New York City when the [1918] Spanish flu crept in, looked askance at pandemic responses elsewhere … [and] was philosophically disinclined to intrude much on ordinary life. He also didn't want to freak people out." So the shows went on, but Copeland instituted some major changes in […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM on July 15, 2020